Manager of General Accounting

Full-time - Mid Level

Washington, DC

Educational Services

About the position

The General Accounting Manager's primary responsibilities are to review, analyze financial data, and reconciliations; prepare financial reports and regulatory filings, prepare complex financial statement disclosures, coordinate activities and requests from internal and external auditors. This position is also responsible for providing effective project coordination and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Review of daily, weekly and monthly analyses and reconciliations for designated staff and areas
• Understanding of Financial Statements / general ledger accounts to be able to prep journal entries appropriately
• Preparation of various journal entries and accruals relating to monthly close process
• Help close process in reporting actuals, overseeing JE's prepped by the accounting staff
• Develop and maintain relationships with business owners and stakeholders for designated areas such as standing meetings and monthly financial reporting packages that foster continuous improvement and monitoring of internal controls and facilitate transparency and connectivity between financial reporting and business operations
• Provide oversight in individual tasks to maintain controls surrounding designated business cycles
• Coordination of external audit
• Preparation of financial reports including financial statements and footnotes, internal board/mgmt. reports, annual report, and external reports as identified
• Assist in the analysis and implementation of new accounting pronouncements
• Identify system/procedure problems, conduct researches, and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Process improvement, standardizing and streamlining procedures
• Ad hoc analyses as requested by the Management
• Occasional long hours may be required in accordance with deadlines or special projects

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required
• Certified Public Accountant Preferred
• 3-5 years experience in business-side analytical role on finance or accounting team
• Proficiency in excel, word, Peoplesoft Financials, HR-Payroll and Cardinal Students System
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment
• Strong analytical skills in interpreting reports
• Extremely detail-oriented and high attention to accuracy
• Able to develop positive rapport with key contacts across the team/organization/network
• Self-directed and proactive - must aim to understand the 'flow' of the monthly process and work ahead of this process as urgent ad-hoc items tend to pop up

Benefits

• $100,000 salary